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Anna


• 13 years old – Anna Fitzgerald

• Scientists used her mother’s egg and her father’s sperm to create her. She was made to save her sisters life

• Anna wants to hire a lawyer named Campbell

• Campbell tries to send Anna away, and she explains that she wants Campbell to help her sue her parents for the right to her own body

Campbell

• Lawyer

• He agrees to represent her because he thinks the case will be easy to win and have great publicity

• Anna leaves after Campbell tells her he will file a petition in family court for her medical emancipation

• Campbell’s dog, Judge, pushes against him, apparently alerting Campbell to something

Sara

• Told from a 1990 perspective

• Her husband is a firefighter and she regrets giving up her career as stay at home mother

• Sara notices a bruise on Kate’s shoulder and by the next couple days its spread to go down her whole spine area

• Kate goes to the hospital and they find out that Kate has (APL)

• She has a 20-30% survival rate

• Sara does not want Kate to die

Brian

• The fire started because a body got stuck in the cremation incinerator

• Kate upsets Sara because she is wearing a shirt with the word “cancer” on it

• Anna seems upset and does not have her locket on

• Brian goes to the fire station and Anna goes there to visit him and they watch the stars from the roof of the station

Anna

• Anna and Sara talk about kidney donation at the hospital

• An officer comes in and gives Sara the papers from Anna’s medical emancipation

• Jesse picks up Anna from the hospital because Sara is really had at her

• Anna refuses to drop the lawsuit, and despite Brian’s protests, Sara grows even angrier until she slaps Anna

• Kate says to Anna that she is her only friend and she can’t stand to lose her

• Sara and Anna are going to fix everything

Sara

• Sara and Brian see an oncologist who will be in charge of Kate’s treatments

• They start getting overwhelmed with all the stuff they need for Kate

• Kate starts chemotherapy and gets very sick and might need bone marrow

• Dr. Chance tells Sara that if she and Brian have more children, one sibling could be a match

• After chemo, Kate develops a infection and goes to the hospital

• Sara is thinking of having another kid

Campbell

• Campbell stops for coffee and gives his waiter a new sarcastic explanation of his service dog, Judge and when he comes back to his office Anna is there

• Sara tells Campbell that Anna has changed her mind, but Anna tells Campbell she has not

• Campbell goes to the courthouse and Sara is there and she decides to act as counsel for her and Brian

• They decide they need to speak with Anna

Anna

• Anna thinks about what her funeral would be like

• At the courthouse they discuss the situation and Anna says that she can’t give Kate the kidney

• She said she never wanted to stop the lawsuit because she loves her mother

• Anna comes home and Sara then says that she practically signed Kate’s death sentence

• She goes to the Laundromat and thinks about life without Kate and cant

Jesse

• Jesse thinks about life when he used to light bath soap on fire to show Anna

• When he’s driving down the highway he thinks about crashing his car because he would be worth more being dead

• Jesse then meets a homeless man named Dan and Jesse gives him food if Dan will watch his things (stolen acid and sawdust)

• He goes to an abandoned warehouse and starts a fire

• When he returns home Kate is vomiting blood

• The doctor tells Sara and Jesse that Kate is in the end stages of kidney failure

• All they need is Anna’s kidney to save Anna but Jesse offers him his kidney but it must be an exact match